Climate experts sound alarm over thriving plant life at Greenland ice sheet
by Rachel Keenan from Environment | The Guardian on (#6JK99)
Research shows there has been a near-quadrupling across Greenland of methane-producing wetlands
Significant areas of Greenland's melted ice sheet are now producing vegetation, risking increased greenhouse gas emissions, rising sea levels and instability of the landscape.
A study has documented the change since the 1980s and shows that large areas of ice have been replaced with barren rock, wetlands and shrub growth, creating a change in environment.
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